<p>Do they mix? Is it obvious?</p>
<p>It’s as obvious as you choose to make it.</p>
<p>no they don’t miX!!! are you crazy? If the rich people and the poor people start to get together the world will explode!! ahhh!!!</p>
<p>It’s hard, but it can work.</p>
<p>Let’s use an example. John, Steven, and Michael are all friends. J and S are rich, but M is poor. If J proposes a cruise for the summer, S will agree to it enthusiastically, but poor M will say that he cannot afford it. There will be 2 outcomes. Either J and S ditch M for the cruise, or J and S decide to do something cheaper (in which case the friendship will work out perfectly fine).</p>
<p>I think it also depends on HOW rich and HOW poor. Are we talking a typical cc’er, upper middle class and someone living in poverty? Or are we talking about a lower end middle class and higher end middle class(not upper middle class though)?</p>
<p>an awnser that is not “politically correct” is that rich and poor people do have a harder time getting along. Mostly because the poor person has had more hardships than a richer person. Also there are cultural differences as well. I moved from a poor area just outside of detroit to one of the richer subburbs when i was 14 and the life styles/culture is totally different. Where i grew up it was rare that someone would have a “new” car. a new car to us was something that was newer than 5 years old. i moved out to the suburbs and everyone (including kids) had brand new cars and did alot of stuff that i couldent really relate too (like taking trips during every school break). I personally felt as if i moved hundreds of miles away because of the cultural differences. it took me more than a year to make friends out here because of cultural differences. </p>
<p>There are alot of cultural differences but a friendship can work between a rich person and a poor person.</p>
<p>the gap between rich and poor become bigger and bigger .it is awesome</p>
<p>I’m upper-middle class. I have friends who have their bartmitzvahs in castles in Scotland and a vacation home in the Hampton’s. I get along with them just fine. I also had a friend whose garage was bigger than her house, which was about the size of my kitchen. Her dad is a racecar driver (not a very successful one) and they move really frequently, sometimes living in crappy hotels for weeks. We could all sit down and have a normal conversation together. Why? Because people are people. Despite the differences in our lifestyles, we had all been through similar *<strong><em>. Not one of us had had “more problems” than another one. And even though not all of us went to the Bahamas during spring break, we found we had more things in common than we had differences. We could still talk about school, movies, politics, and stupid *</em></strong> like putting ketchup in so-and-sos car’s air conditioning vents. </p>
<p>Rich and poor people don’t get along only when they choose to make an issue out of it.</p>
<p>MissSuperFantastic, do you by any chance read the shoeblog of the Manolo?</p>
<p>I (heart) him.</p>
<p>then there are some of us who are rich, but dont spend money and get along better with poor.</p>
<p>its cool. all my friends are poor like me. sort of.</p>
<p>there is a very long thread in the parents forum about this subject</p>
<p>It has been my experience that the class differences in the college setting are much less pronounced than they were in the highschool setting.</p>
<p>At Rice it is very rare to see people segregate by class.</p>
<p>rich and poor usually shouldn’t mix…especially in neighborhoods…its sometimes ok in friendships though…i know first hand because i live in an upper class neighborhood, between two of the most dangerous cities in america</p>
<p>To some extent, it depends what side of the fence you’re on. I think it would be easier for a rich person to have poor friends than the other way around. I’m pretty poor myself and I have a well-off friend (we’ve been friends since 2nd grade 
). Sometimes the class differences are hard to swallow, you know? When we talk, our conversations go something like this:</p>
<p>Her: Oh! I’m getting a new apartment downtown! My parents are helping me pay for it, so they kinda set a cap at $1200/mo.
Me: That’s really cool!
Her: Do you have plans for moving out?
Me: Nope, I’ll be living with my mom until I’m 25. <em>laugh</em>
…
Her: How’s work going?
Me: Eh… not bad. I’ve been working about 35 hours a week.
Her: Wow! That’s a lot. I only have to work 16 hours a week… But that’s plenty for me. How do you do that with school?
Me: You find ways…</p>
<p>It goes on about trips, graduation, etc.etc. I love her to death, but sometimes jealousy creeps up and I have to find more neutral territory. I doubt if she has any conflicting emotions like that towards me. </p>
<p>But anyway, to another post I’ve seen, yes, we all have problems. However, extreme poverty definitely is close to the top of the most crappy problems list, if only because it encompasses so many other areas of your life. Not very much compares to having to live in unsafe neighborhoods, making due without basic utilities, and not being able to afford needed medical treatment.</p>
<p>This really has nothing to do with college, though…</p>
<p>It’s often tough to tell how rich someone really is. Some people might think I’m rolling in dough, for example, since I have two Apple laptops, lots of designer clothing, an Acura, and go to a ton of baseball games. What they fail to see is that I rarely take a vacation, the Acura is a 1988 that I inherited, both laptops were low-end when new and one is six years old, and I almost never go to the movies or buy books (the library is free). I also only order water when I go out, but then again I don’t drink soda pop or anything alcoholic.</p>
<p>I work a decent job and get $7 per hour, sometimes working 20-30 hours per week plus my second job which gives me about $30-100 per week (sometimes but rarely more) and my $80 allowance per month for gas from my dad. The extra stuff goes into my bank account in case I need a car repair. Even Acuras need tuned up now and then, though they are pretty reliable.</p>